Malone Dies, novel by the Irish author Samuel Beckett, originally written in French as Malone meurt (1951) and translated by the author into English. It is the second narrative in the trilogy that began with Molloy and concluded with The Unnamable. The novel’s narrator, Malone, is dying. He spends his time writing an inventory of his meagre possessions, a description of his condition, and stories about a character who is clearly an aspect of himself. Malone’s struggles to tell his character’s story can be viewed as a satire on the creative process as well as an attempt to understand the essence of the self.

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April 13?, 1906 Foxrock, County Dublin, Ireland December 22, 1989 Paris, France author, critic, and playwright, winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1969. He wrote in both French and English and is perhaps best known for his plays, especially En attendant Godot (1952; Waiting for Godot).

French prose work by Irish writer Samuel Beckett, published in 1951. It was the first book in a trilogy written in French that included Malone meurt (1951; Malone Dies) and L’Innommable (1953; The Unnamable).

novel by Samuel Beckett, published in French as L’Innommable in 1953 and then translated by the author into English. It was the third in a trilogy of prose narratives that began with Molloy (1951) and Malone meurt (1951; Malone Dies), published together in English as Three Novels (1959)....